POUGHKEEPSIE — An 80-year-old Dutchess County man is dead after contracting Legionnaires’ disease at the Castle Point campus of the Veterans Affairs’ Hudson Valley Health Care System, county officials say.

The man died at Vassar Brothers Hospital of multiple complications resulting from Legionnaires’ disease he contracted sometime in June, according to Kari Reiber, acting health commissioner and chief medical examiner for Dutchess County.

The man’s identity wasn’t immediately available.

Reiber she wasn’t aware of any other deaths from the disease in the county.

Legionnaires’ disease is spread through bacteria in water vapor that is inhaled. The most at-risk people are generally over the age of 65.